ANOTHER MODERN PROBLEM
SHOULD POWDER PUFF BE USED IN CHURCH?
CLERGYMAN’S COMPLAINT lUnlted Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Rec. December 28, 8.45 p.m.) London, December 27. Citing complaints about girls powdering their noses, which apparently shine like good deeds in a naughty world, during Evensong on Sundays, the Rev. Syewart Bernays, rector of Finchley, declared that he himself suffered at a theatre by a girl combing her hair between scenes over his dress suit. “I was tempted in my mid-Victorian wrath to take a shaving-set to see how a good shave would interest the audience,” said Mr. Bernays. “It would have been cleaner than brushing one’s hair over other people. Performing a toilet in church seems the limit in bad manners. I omit the question of irreverence, but even the shiniest nose might be left in its native element until the worship of God is over.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 81, 29 December 1928, Page 7
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